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The video below should infuriate you. And it should bug the hell out of any female DJ trying to be taken seriously today. DJ Colette -- whom we remember stinking up the joint back when she got her start at Liquid Kitty (at least we THINK that was the first bar stupid enough to let her behind the decks) -- is one of those vain, semi-talented knob-twiddlers that wouldn't garner any attention if she wasn't wearing tight tops while keeping regular appointments at her local salon to keep her roots uniformly colored.
Man, do we sound bitchy or what? Before we continue, though,watch this video and tell us you don't agree.
Are you done throwing up in your mouth? Good.
Listen, there are plenty of hot girl DJs out there with oodles of talent. We've gotten down to the grooves of folks like Chess Hubbard, Erica from OFFICE, and whoever that awesome DJ at The Burlington last night was, and we weren't dancing just because the ladies behind the decks were lookers. We danced because the DJs put in hard hours getting their shit together, and secured gigs through mixtapes, not head shots.
And any DJ that has to just "push through" a set should hang up their needles (or iPods or laptops or CDs or 8-tracks) and let someone else take over.
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Liquid Kitty
lol,
I forgot about that cheezehole, 'liquid shitty'. What was the place there before it that showed movies? That space is like a new 'something' every couple years it seems.
I don't get it. What is the point of that video? Is it supposed to be a promotional piece? Yech.
Sex sells.
Instead of further perpetuating you know, misogyny, maybe we should congratulate this woman for looking around, taking an honest inventory of the society in which she lives and choosing to play by rules she didn't make in order to rise to the top of her game?
That would be Celluloid Movie Bar, Navin, which was itself part of Liquid Kitty.
Wait, Spav1, are you telling me it's misogynistic to point out that there are talented female DJs out there that get gigs on factors beyond just their good looks, but it's not misogynistic to praise those that utilize the motto "sex sells?"
Oh, THAT'S how you rise to the top of the game. Guess we'd better tell every other girl that's actually talented to just hang it up, huh?
Thanks Chuck!
It is misogynistic to attack a woman performer for how she looks because you would never make fun of a man in the same way.
Rationally, you should only tell the UGLY ones with talent to hang it up. The good looking ones will be fine either way.
Once again "tankboy" shows he has no idea what he is talking about. I've been reading Chicagoist for a while and everything this guy writes is lame.
i remember liquid kitty. and collete started well before that place opened. she's done well in both SF and Chicago for years and years now. I don't get the point of all the hate. Maybe she rejected tankboy once too often.
Did Tankboy get turned down for a date or something? Because after watching the video I'm still not sure where the bitter nastiness of this personal attack (which is what it comes across as) comes from. Do better, dude.
10 decades = 100 years. did they have djs 100 years ago? if so she is OLD SKOOL.
Hey, I got rejected by Liz Phair and still managed to write nice things about her for years afterwards! So it ain't that.
Y'know, it's like this. I'm sure Colette is a decent person, but she has a looong history in Chicago, and her reputation is not one that, in my opinion at least, is built on talent. And this video merely underscores that point and makes her seem even more shallow and superficial than she probably is.
My point is that her image is not the sort of thing that would inspire someone like Liz Revision or Ellen Allien ... instead it's the sort of thing that gives us people like DJ Diamond.
(P.S. I do still love Heather from the SuperJane collective Colette was part of.)
When you have to reply to your own post more than once to defend it, you are a failure.
I am taking by arbitrary vitrol cues from you today Tankboy.
When you have to respond to your own post more than once to defend it, you are a failure.
I am taking my arbitrary vitrol cues from you today Tankboy. Thanks.
I'm sorry, there is no way anyone in this world is so busy he or she has to conduct interviews while being shampooed. Gaaaaah. And she's married to Rookie of the Year.
Ladies knew how to rock the party back in 1907 Matty.
LOL @ hipsters even attempting to write about DJs in the glam scene.
Go back to the dumps in Wicker Park where ugly rules.
I'm sorry, there is no way anyone in this world is so busy he or she has to conduct interviews while being shampooed.
And I'm 100% certain DJ Colette came up with the idea. Gaaaaaaah. Color me INFURIATED!
First off, the "hipster" girl DJs out there are far from ugly. In fact, many are better looking than Colette.
Second off, musically I don't mind Colette. She is a decent DJ and vocalist. Good for her.
What is puzzling to me is that she isn't THAT good looking. The fact that they shot such a silly video of her getting her hair done and her at a photo shoot trying to be sexy is just kinda sad.
She looks like a generic sorority girl with weird bumps on her face and a little more junk in the trunk. Nothing to write home about. She should focus on her music. That's all. Cause she isn't a model material. Not even for Sears.
I had to "push through" watching that video.
Isn't it misogynistic to say that she's setting "female DJs" back 10 decades? If you're complaint is that she's coasting on her looks and not her talent (which I have no opinion on one way or another), wouldn't that implicate all DJ culture and not just the girls?
I agree with dragonwars. I am not saying she's homely, but there are more fit and more attractive women to be encoutered in just a five minute walk through either Lakeview or Wicker Park.
Yeah the only thing infuriating about this video is that Chicagoist wasted a post on it. Its dull, boring, but would not illicit the reactions you seem to think it would, Tankboy, for anyone who does not have a history with or some sort of vendetta towards DJ Colette. Nothing in this video would remotely make me think she is talentless, or getting by on her looks. This appears to be yet another part of the ever burgeoning "youtube culture." Would not warrant a response at all had you not posted so angrily about it Tankboy.
That is Chicago Magazine for you.
WTF. Like her or not, this is a pretty innocuous video about a famous-in-her-own-right Chicagoan.
But this:
DJ Colette...is one of those vain, semi-talented knob-twiddlers that wouldn't garner any attention if she wasn't wearing tight tops while keeping regular appointments at her local salon to keep her roots uniformly colored
makes you sound like a fucking fucking asshole. Fuck you, tankboy. And your fucking turkey sandwich, too.
Wait, how did you know we made our turkey yesterday?
Aren't you guys giving her a load of free publicity by putting that up there?!
Had you read Mark Guarino's print article in Chicago magazine:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2007/You-Should-Know-DJ-Colette/
you would see that she's an "aspiring pop diva". Pop = image, people! Also, I believe production of that video was Chicago Magazine's maiden voyage into multimedia offerings on their site. Not defending the magazine or Colette, just saying if you don't know all of the facts, people, stop the hate...
I have to agree with the posters who are down on this one, not because I find it misogynic (don't you think that's a better word than misogynistic which sounds like it has too many syllables or maybe needs another one to sound even worse, like "misogynistical" or even "misogynisticalistic"), but because your video "proof" does absolutely nothing to advance your premise that she is a talent-free dj who gets gigs based on her looks. She may in fact suck as a dj, but the video gave me zero basis to believe that or otherwise. Yeah, she seems like someone I probably wouldn't want to hang out with. So what?
really? you really put chess "mother" hubbard in there as one of chicago's female dj's w/ "oodles of talent" take the earplugs out next time you hear the girl spin, train wrecks & horse's galloping all day. There's a reason she isn't spinnin Subterranean on saturdays anymore, I've seen on more than one occasion the place go from a packed house to a cleared room when she gets on sloppily throwing tracks together like there's no need for skill when dj'ing.
If you want to mention female dj's w/ talent how about SR71, J.LEE, AMPM.
I'm guessing the writer of this must be a close friend of mother hubbards, that would be the only explaination as to why that name would even come up as a dj w/ talent.
i'm gonna have to concur with scumbriety here. on everything.
if you want female dj's with real talent, check for sr-71 and j.lee. the rest could learn a lot by watching them.
This is sad, pathetic crap. Tankboy, I hardly see Chicagoist as a launching pad for what seems like a pointless personal vendetta against this person. Sure, the video is boring or whatever you want it to be - but your post so completely reeks of your taking personal offense from her that it's just completely out of place on Chicagoist.
You should post bullshit like this on your own lame blog - whatever url that is. I don't come to Chicagoist to read your personal rants. Please go put a tampon in and take some Tylenol.
Curmudgeon, and everyone else that missed my earlier response, to reiterate, I do now know Colette, and have no personal vendetta against her. The point is that she is of limited skill and that videos and PR like this does nothing to forward a positive image of female DJs.
scumbriety and staybeautiful, thanks for the recommendations, I'll be sure to check them out.